June 13 2023 - Lemmy Instance updated to version 0.17.4 - sh.itjust.works
Good morning,
Some of you may have experienced a small hiccup this morning (eastern time). I went ahead and upgraded our lemmy instance to 0.17.4. I also took this opportunity to make some small adjustments to the instance that required a restart of services. These changes were mainly related to increasing Federation worker count in hopes to decrease synchronization times with other instances. A small fix to help slow down the storage growth was also applied (limiting log sizes that get generated).
Everything should be back up now. In the future my goal is to be more transparent with scheduling downtime.
Thanks for your effort. I really have to say the performance here is very good compared to other instances (tried two others before I landed here). Shit just works.
Thanks! Ah, so this is just a DB optimization patch. From the sounds of that changelog, all the big stuff is coming down the pipe in the next version. Presumably that's when they're finally turning off WebSockets.
The security fixes were documented prior and manually applied on our old instance as well. This patch was to get the performance gains and align with the latest release!
Unclear if this happened since this patch or it was like this, but I am unable to log in on desktop. My Android app works fine, but on desktop, if I go to the login page then click login, the thing spins forever without any error message regardless of if my credentials are correct.
Edit: this doesn't happen on blahaj.zone which runs 17.2.
edit2: either you did something or it fixed itself.
Thank you! Can you confirm that we are having federation issues? I cannot seem to locate magazines on other instances. I just wanted to make sure its not just me doing something wrong.
Is there a wiki of Lemmy or fediverse terminology for stuff like this? I'm not sure what "Federation worker count" is, but I also don't know where to look to find the answer.
Yeah something like that was what I was looking for. I don't see any mention of "Federation worker count" but... not everything is documented so whatever. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks!
Serious question: Is there a way to get the interface to dynamically expand to the width of the browser window? The narrow columns are giving me a twitch in my right eye.
I built a style for lemmy that makes multiple changes in the UI. It requires an add on called Stylus, which is well worth it for a ton of other websites as well